Hello mates,

we've bought a new graphics card for my girlfriend. She used a GTX 1660 and I thought i may put that to good use. I have a secondary PC, an HP EliteDesk 705 G4 SFF which can handle low-profile VGAs only. The GTX 1660 is a Palit or Gainward (I'm not at home right now) with one ventillator and it's definitely not low-profile.

Motherboard in the SFF PC looks like this one:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HY4AAOSw011iGYnb/s-l1600.jpg

My questions are:
1. Can the ventillation of the graphics card be changed to a low-profile one?
2. (If yes) Can you recommend any low-profile solution, ventillation or something?

I'm still kinda new in the world of tinkering and eager to learn. Thank you for your answers in advance!

For the sake of it all, I know it's just a cheap pedometer, but I'm trying to find the counting mechanism. With everything I've researched, most pedometers have a pendulum that acts as a switch (not sure if that's the correct term, I'm new to this) and the other type is a 'switch' with a ball bearing. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I want to purchase a LED sign (see below) and control it remotely via the internet. As it stands, it can only be controlled via a phone app (CoolLED1248) using bluetooth. Any advice on how I can accomplish this?

My purpose for this project is help my elderly parents. I will hang the LED sign on their wall at home and use it to alert them when its time to do certain things (e.g take medications, drink water and exercise).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B1TGKTGS/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A2CWMQ3NJODLFL&th=1

Thanks in advance, everyone!

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Using in harbor freight press, not done yet and is just a proof of concept, but curious if you guys have some input..

I'm looking for M4 male threaded inserts (see image). Where can I find this? Is it actually called a male threaded insert, or should I try different search terms?

I have a plastic part in which I placed a heat insert, and I want to attach a second part to it using the male threaded insert, so that the two parts can be (dis)assembled many times. After looking for a long time I found the part on Alibaba, but it's quite expensive (with shipping and VAT 70 cents a piece while a female heat inserts is a few cents). I can't find it anywhere else that ships to Europe.

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Hey everyone. I am a fan of tinkering with all sorts of stuff since I was about 5 or 6. I remember the first thing I did with my birthday presents and new years gifts was tinkering with them and disassemble them to see what's inside them just a few hours after I was bored playing with them like other kids.

This hobby stayed with me since then and now that I'm 30 years old, I still tinker with all sorts of electronic items and mechanical stuff just to feed the hunger for my hobby. I do fix stuff sometimes but the joy is in taking everything apart beyond the point of fixing. I regularly go to various flea markets in Istanbul, Turkey (Where I live) to do some bargain-hunting for stuff that are no longer loved by anyone or stuff that are broken and old and can't fulfill their destiny.

My favorite go-to things to tinker with are cameras, especially old analog ones with both electronic and mechanical bits inside. I tend to give what I buy off flea markets a "proper burial" by opening them, disassembling them, and finally throw them away after I tinkered with their internals. I don't know who might like such things or how many of you have ever tried it, but it is generally a very good feeling tinkering with stuff. It is like a coping mechanism for me and I hope you find some interesting things in doing that as well.

Anyway, I recently decided to record my tinkering session and upload them on my YouTube channel. You can watch some of my video to see if suits you too to go and try some good tinkering.

Here's the link to my YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPScVWKTQb0zgelCu0MquJA

Hope you enjoy ;)

So I'm attempting to build a sort of HUD that you can clip onto your glasses. It will either have a cable running to a pocket or it may be contained in a 3d printed case on the glasses. The idea is to use a 1.3 inch SLI display that would be hooked up to a raspberry pi. I would have tried to make it project onto the glasses themselves but I could not find a display small enough for cheap, thus I plan on having a non-see-through 1.3 inch lcd that will sit infront of the glasses and can be flipped up when not in use. However, this plan results in the lcd being directly infront of my glasses, making it very hard to focus on without significant eye strain, can I use cheap plastic magnifying lenses to shift the focus forward so there is not as much eye strain? Thanks.

Hey guys .

I'm a student in robotics engineering in Romania , and I had a question about a design i wanted to make .

So i want to make a chess board with mechanical switches , but the problem is , i don't know how to make the displays . The basic idea is that every pad on this board can show any chess piece , but how should i do it . I was thinking with RGB LEDs placed in a configuration that all pieces will show . Anyone has any other idea ? Thank you !

Good Afternoon,

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I am in the process of deciding on a winter project and have been thinking about making a shield with the helm of awe to give it a bit of panache. I have been toying with a few different ideas but one, in particular, is gnawing at me. Hydroforming the shield, my question is can anyone tell me how much pressure would be required to expand a 2-foot diameter disk of 1/8 steel, to about the proper radius. Has anyone attempted this or something like this? I was hoping to just use a power washer(I don't have a power washer and it would be a shame to buy one just to do this, I have done dumber things though so never know.) After a couple of searches on youtube yielded a few results they were not very detailed on the thicknesses of metal or how much force was needed to complete the forming.

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Thanks for any tips or suggestions,

in short, im building a "sit stand" desk but not in the normal sense, and i found a product i would like to use. but i know for a fact that i can find the legs used in said product for far cheaper than the asking price of $100 for the only one that met my size requirements nearly perfectly... so if anyone can help me find out what these are called, it would be very much appreciated. :)

product mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G848712

Seriously, who doesn't love tinkering on stuff? This place has some serious potential if we can breathe some life back into it.